LONDON (AP) — A British High Court judge ruled Wednesday that a company linked to a lingerie tycoon must repay the government more than 121 million pounds ($163 million) for breaching a contract to supply 25 million surgical gowns during the coronavirus pandemic.

In an 87-page ruling, Justice Sara Cockerill found that PPE Medpro had “breached the contract” and that the Department of Health and Social Care was “entitled to the price of the gowns as damages,” though not to the cost of storing the gowns.

The judge said the gowns, which had been manufactured in China to supposedly European standards, “were not, contractually speaking, sterile, or properly validated as being sterile” and that as a result they “could not be used as sterile gowns.”

PPE Medpro, which was established as the pand

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